26 Part 2 Flashcards
A beginner
Un débutant
To start - the start
Débuter - le debut
The onset / the outset
Le debut
Originally
Initialement
To attend - to see to sth
S’occuper de qqch
To undertake sth
Entreprendre qqch
To set about doing sth
Entreprendre de faire qqch
To take sth up
Se mettre à qqch
To go in for sth
S’adonner à qqch
To take over from sby
Prendre le relais de qqn
To fail to do sth
Ne pas parvenir à faire qqch
Failure
Un échec - l’échec
To avoid doing sth
Éviter de faire qqch
Avoidable - unavoidable
Évitable - inevitable
Unavoidably
Inévitablement
To shun sth
Éviter qqch
To jeopardize sth
Compromettre qqch
A fiasco - a washout
Un fiasco - un bide
To be mistaken - to err
Se tromper
To misuse sth
Mal utiliser qqch
To drop out sth -to withdraw from sth
Se retirer de qqch
To back out of sth
Se dédire
To give sth up - to give up doing sth
Renoncer a qqch -renoncer à faire qqch
A disadvantage
Un désavantage
To get worse
Empirer
A setback
Un revers
